Before and after: Satellite images show devastation of the Leilani Estates neighborhood from Hawaii volcano

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Before and after: Satellite images show devastation of the Leilani Estates neighborhood from Hawaii volcano

Leilani Estates, a small residential neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii near the town of Pahoa, has been at the epicenter of the Kilauea volcanic eruption.

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AP reporter Sophia Yan says some residents of Hawaii’s Big Island have been forced into evacuation shelters. Some worry about an energy plant that had housed 50,000 gallons of flammable material and some residents of Hawaii’s largest island are untouched by the lava’s damage. (May 11)AP

Leilani Estates, a small residential neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii near the town of Pahoa, has been at the epicenter of the Kilauea volcanic eruption for the past two weeks.

As of May 15, 19 separate fissures have opened up in or near the four-square-mile neighborhood, sending scalding lava and noxious gases throughout the subdivision.

Lava has consumed about two dozen homes near the volcano over the last week and about 2,000 people have been evacuated from the danger zone.

Satellite imagery and analytics firm DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company, directed its cameras over the verdant, green landscape of Leilani Estates as it appeared about a year ago, on May 24, 2017. The “after” images show the charred neighborhood on Monday, May 14.